Demotruk said:
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I'll grant there certainly was a conflicting message between Prime's portrayal of the Space Pirates and Other M's, given that the ones in Prime were intelligent creatures with their own culture independent from Mother Brain and Zebes, but then they also radically altered the appearance of the Space Pirates from Super's, so it could very well be that the Zebesian Space Pirates are a seperate breed that functioned differently (directly mentally enslaved to Mother Brain rather than a tight-knit group of sentient beings)
But as i said, Prime being a seperate series is more or less true, but saying that does not disregard their significance as part of the story, rather the Prime series does that itself by introducing its own overarching plot element (Phazon) that is resolved through the course of the sub-series. Indeed, Prime also resolved the problem of independent space pirates, because the independent pirates, centered on the homeworld from Prime 3, had their homeworld discovered and occupied by the Federation, so would no longer be a likely threat outside of the Zebesians who returned in Super
This careless handling of Metroid continuity is likely to continue anyway, all the moreso because of Other M's underperformance, and because the continuity's merely been a tool for the games themselves or the associated media. Other M clung to the manga because they were trying to build on something that the Japanese would likely remember and increase the game's appeal accordingly. Super Metroid had the highly incredulous plot device of the Space Pirates rebuilding even though their base self-destructed last time because they just kinda wanted to remake Metroid. Retro wanted Metroids for Prime, so the Space Pirates cloned them in spite of established canon of the species extinction by Return of Samus, and Other M aped Fusion's story because many of Fusion's plot elements (the twist of Federation experimentation on Metroids, Space Pirates, and Ridley) made for some neat plot twists to work for a more story-intensive game
The more interesting question will be where they take the story after Fusion at this point.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.